Sentences with phrase «data about judges»

Buyers knew very little about sellers, sellers knew little about buyers, and neither had much data about judges.

The survey was designed to collect data about the judge, the court staff, the court facilities, the jury instructions, and the attorneys and asked for both objective ratings and subjective observations.

Not exact matches

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

By mapping those emotional responses to the corresponding plot points, the studio gleaned objective data about the film — something that would otherwise be judged subjectively.

I do not judge a religion by human behavior, what bothers me about any religion is the lack of any data to back any of them up.

The Sunlight Foundation is sponsoring a contest to encourage people to present interesting Congressional data using modern online tools, with entrants being «judged on their creativity and how effectively they share information about Congress.»

The data cited is about crimes reported to / investigated by the police, not about crimes committed or verdicts by judges.

On Friday, Walden asked the judge to force NYCHA to provide independent data from outside Maximo about the inspections.

«Courts would be forced to focus on whether data about police enforcement fit whatever demographic quotas the judge deemed appropriate,» he wrote.

The researchers found that men in survey and experimental data were more likely than women to avoid cross-party political discussion, to judge political arguments based solely on what party is advancing them, and to form strong political opinions about the opposite party's positions without actually listening to the other side's reasoning.

Losing it would carry us back to the pre-Coleman era when schools were judged not by their results but by their inputs, promises, and services, and teachers were evaluated by brief classroom visits from supervisors who arrived with no data, no rubrics — and no ability to do anything about problematic instructors.

The DOJ eventually backpedaled somewhat, dropping its demand that it have authority to approve or deny every single voucher, but a federal judge ruled that the state must fork over data about the race of participating students, which the DOJ could use in future challenges.

Despite my reservations about some of the big data measures that are used to judge schools, I am hopeful that our discourse is shifting the debate on assessment in a very positive direction.

Senior examiners judge the difficulty of each paper by looking at samples of candidates» work from the current year and previous years, as well as statistical data about candidates» performance.

Consider for example how satellite data have made it possible to better analyze hurricane tracks allowing to judge about hurricane motion with some certainty a few days in advance, something entirely unavailable for the ancient weather forecasters.

If we can consider the Cowtan Way data set the more correct then I would judge that it will require some major rethinking about the Arctic polar amplification and the operating mechanism (s).

As I reported here when it launched last September, Gavelytics uses artificial intelligence to extract data from court dockets and applies analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on particular matters and in what timeframe.

Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.

Thus, lawyers from the public defender service have been asking judges to allow them to examine court data on jury pools — and this month, D.C. Superior Court Judge Boasberg ruled that the defense is entitled to information about how jurors are identified and summoned.

Defence lawyers, Crown counsel and judges all see this data when it is disclosed in court, and many are speaking up about the risks.

Jon Baines, a data protection advisor at Mishcon de Reya, said the ruling suggests the courts will judge «right to be forgotten» cases on their specific facts and that there is likely to be «an increase in the number of successful requests for delisting, as individuals take note of the court's analysis, and assert their strong and potentially enforceable rights to have out - of - date or inaccurate information about them on the internet made more difficult, at least, to find».

We'll be looking at how new technologies are making new types of government data — including key information about government regulations, judges, litigants and attorneys — available.

By processing this enriched data, lawyers can draw conclusions about opposing counsel, judges, litigation parties, and contract drafts in order to reveal insights that were not previously knowable.

Both are focused on using data to provide greater transparency about judges and judicial elections.

In his response Young also recommends that the extent to which judges depart from the guidelines should be monitored, and says that access to reliable data is essential to permit forecasting about the likely effect of sentencing guidelines on the prison population.

For example, it is up to judges to determine whether digital evidence is reasonably accessible, or even to determine what electronic evidence is — something not always clear when talking about spreadsheets, databases or other unstructured data.

Earlier this year, he founded My Court Case, which analyzes publicly available court data to learn how judges rule so that individuals can make choices about how to proceed with their criminal case.

In a post yesterday, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, I wrote about three websites that provide data and analytics about judges.

Lex Machina uses sophisticated analytics to mine data from intellectual property cases to reveal insights about judges, lawyers, parties and patents.

But regardless of how comfortable you are with technology, when you're talking about doing discovery with electronic data, there's a lot of different processes involved and there's different terms you have to understand and sometimes you have to educate the judge on some of this too; so it gets complicated in a hurry.

Ravel Law's Firm Analytics enables counsel to study similar data about one's opponent, focused by practice area, court, judge, time or proceeding — or all of the above.

In an acquisition that brings together cutting edge analytics with a trove of content, LexisNexis has acquired litigation data mining company Lex Machina, which through its Legal Analytics platform provides insights about judges, lawyers, parties and patents from IP litigation.

It's not the substantive law; it's really data about the players, about the judges, about the law firms, about the attorneys.

We have I think over a million cases in the database now across a number of different verticals, as we will discuss I am sure, and combining that data and finding patterns that can be helpful to attorneys, patterns of behavior, again, about opposition, about judges, about timing, about any number of things that can help lawyers do their job better.

So if you are a lawyer practicing for many years, you may have some intuition about the way to go in a certain case and now you can test that intuition versus the data and say, okay, I think or I have heard this judge kind of behaves the following way, let me go through the data, and you may end up still making the same decision you were going to make before, or you might make a completely different decision, but now it's a data - driven decision.

And again, if you just think about it that way, so they are responding to a case, they know the company, they know what district the lawsuit was filed in, they may know the judge, and now we have a chance to use data to say — first of all, in the past people might have emailed around their firm, hey, who knows this judge, who has got experience here in front of this judge, in this firm?

Meanwhile, Lex Machina, which is owned by Lexis Nexis, mines litigation data, revealing insights about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of the cases themselves, culled from millions of pages of litigation information.

You know, LexMockup's a good example of just the ability to take pacer data that's been available for years and suddenly show you information about judges, about competing law firms, about cases that you can't just see by going into Pacer.

By examining a judge's previous decisions, lawyers can make data driven decisions about their tactics with greater confidence.

The big barriers to innovation seem to be (in no particular order): lack of data about the needs and experiences of users of justice systems; the natural monopoly of judges and lawyers; the challenge of developing the smart public - private partnerships that innovation needs; limited or no access to finance.

A judge called today to inquire about ways in which cell phones track and store geolocation data.

Otherwise, the references tend subtly to support claims about partisan judging that are not borne out by the data.

Specifically, the Judge stated that the jury would be instructed about the data loss and that the lost data affirmatively would have provided information relevant to the claims and defenses; defendant would be precluded from offering certain evidence in support of its defense; plaintiff would be able to re-depose, at defendant's cost, defendant's key witnesses about belatedly produced «substitute» data; and defendant would be responsible for 75 % of the Special Master's fees and costs and 50 % of plaintiff's attorneys» fees incurred during the Special Master proceedings.

As clients seek to make more data - driven decisions, what obligation do law firms have to collect and refine data about opposing parties, judges, outcomes, and costs?

Legal Analytics provides data sets about judges, lawyers, parties, and patents, allowing law firms and companies for the first time to predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce.

These programs pore through court decisions and filing data to make profiles and predictions about judges and lawyers.

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit back at Rahul Gandhi on Sunday for his claim about the huge pendency of cases in courts and the shortage of judges, saying the government's notice to Cambridge Analytica for data mining has unnerved the Congress president.

District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ruled today that DreamHost must comply with federal prosecutors» narrowed warrant seeking communications and records about an Inauguration Day protest website: disruptj20.org; but they will have to present the court with a «minimization plan» that includes the names of all government investigators who will have access to the data and a list of all the methods that they will be using to search the evidence.

I use the couple's presenting conflict as data to teach them how to speak about what they are needing without the other person feeling judged, and how to listen for what

Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....